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rini17 on Feb 20, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: LKML discusses merging Rust access to filesystem A...

I was coming from Pascal but hardest to grok were not pointers but that everything in C is an expression possibly with side effects. Unlike Pascal statements.

jstimpfle on Feb 21, 2024 [–]

What side effects are you talking about that are hard to grok?

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